Golden rules : the origins of California water law in the Gold Rush / Mark Kanazawa.
2015
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Author
Title
Golden rules : the origins of California water law in the Gold Rush / Mark Kanazawa.
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Call Number
KFC162 .K36 2015
ISBN
9780226258676 (cloth : alk. paper)
022625867X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226258706 (e-book)
022625867X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226258706 (e-book)
Description
xvii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)890757501
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xiii
ch. 1
Introduction
1
ch. 2
Economic Theory and the Evolution of Water Law
21
ch. 3
Water and the Technologies of Mining
45
ch. 4
Watering the Diggings: The Development of the Ditch Industry
89
ch. 5
The Informal Law of the Mining Camps
118
ch. 6
Origins of the Common Law of Mining and Water Rights
157
ch. 7
The Origins of Prior Appropriation
183
ch. 8
Water Quality and the Law of Nuisance
217
Appendix A
239
ch. 9
Bursting Dams and the Law of Torts
241
Appendix B
261
ch. 10
Conclusions
265
Notes
279
References
319
Index
341